Ultracopier Portable Exclusive <ULTIMATE ●>

The thumb drive was unremarkable: matte black, the size of a postage stamp, its cap missing as if it had been used too often to bother with appearances. Mara found it wedged between the cushions of the battered couch in the tech lab, half-buried beneath solder scraps and sticky notes. Someone had left a label on it in a hurried, cramped hand: “Ultracopier — Portable — Exclusive.”